The second flag of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic was used from 1953 until the fall of the Soviet government in Latvia in 1991. The flag is red with a hammer and sickle in the canton. On the bottom of the flag there are four wavy stripes; one small white stripe, a blue stripe and another white stripe each about double the size of the original stripe below the first stripe, and a final blue stripe taking up the rest of the flag.